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Power restored in all 117 storm-hit Biliran villages

TACLOBAN CITY -- The Biliran Electric Cooperative (Bileco) has restored electricity in all 117 villages of Biliran province battered by Tropical Storm Urduja more than a week ago. In a statement posted...

LTFRB suspends 7 Partas buses over deadly Christmas Day mishap

MANILA -- The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has ordered the preventive suspension of a bus firm that figured in a Christmas Day road accident in Agoo, La Union...

Tagle seeks donations for victims of ‘Urduja,’ ‘Vinta’

MANILA -- Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle has appealed to the faithful to help the people affected by typhoons "Urduja" and "Vinta" in Visayas and Mindanao in the past weeks. He...

44 flood victims still missing in Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Rescue teams have continued the search for the remaining 44 people missing in rampaging flood spawned by the Tropical Storm Vinta in Zamboanga Peninsula. Chief Supt. Billy Beltran, Police...

2 hurt in grenade explosion

ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Two people, including a policeman, were wounded in a grenade explosion Tuesday in this city, the police said. Supt. Hajiri Langgal, Police Station 6 chief, identified the victims as...

Quality time best gift OFWs can give loved ones: Prelate

MANILA -- An official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines-Commission on Pastoral Care for Migrant and Itinerant People (CBCP-ECMI) urged overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are vacationing in the...

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